{"id":6887,"date":"2021-04-21T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2021-04-21T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T18:17:07","slug":"wendy-sherman-no-2-at-us-state-department-tough-negotiator-smooth-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=6887","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Sherman, No 2 at US State Department: tough negotiator, smooth diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostLast week, just days after the Biden administration placed China atop its list of global threats, the US Senate confirmed Wendy Sherman, a long-time diplomat who has negotiated with US adversaries like Iran and North Korea, as the No 2 official in the State Department.\u00a0Sherman, 71, is not generally recognised as a China specialist, and her path to confirmation as deputy secretary of state had to pass through widespread Republican opposition \u2013 she was approved in a 56-42 vote \u2013 in part because\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3130520\/wendy-sherman-no-2-us-state-department-tough-negotiator-smooth\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostLast week, just days after the Biden administration placed China atop its list of global threats, the US Senate confirmed Wendy Sherman, a long-time diplomat who&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}